Thibaut Fernagut wrote: > It sure makes sense ! > You mean a web page with options per choise pointing to a section when > that choise is made (consolidate existing install installs) > > > example : > > Select the arch do you want to install gentoo on : > [X]x86 []arm []x86_64 > > --> go to url of handbook for x86 > > Select a iso: > [X]base []full > > --> go to url where mirrors can be selected for x86 and an explenation > how to write the iso > > > You selected x86-base-iso. Select which stage you want to start the > installation : > []stage1 []stage2 [X]stage3 > > --> go to url of handbook for stage3_install
I'm not sure how will it look from the maintenance POV. If you want to have such a documentation, why don't you talk to the documentation team and/or try to implement it yourself? If you can maintain an up-to-date "guide" with reasonable low manpower, you can use it as an argument that our approach really works and is worth the effort. As a sidenote, most of those "choices" you've mentioned either don't exist at all now (stage selection) or have no real effect at the installation process (ISO selection). > That way you have en entire tree of diffirent ways to install but not > the clutter of the other options because every select you do excludes > sections of unneeded other install_documents. Kind of preventing the > cluttering by _choise_. You should read our x86 quickinstall guide [1], if you already haven't done so. If it still doesn't suit your needs, it would be best to continue this dicsussion at the gentoo-doc mailing list. And please remember that sometimes it's easier and more readable to inculde an extra sentence for a step that some people might have done earlier than to include myriad of options to choose from. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml Cheers, -jkt -- cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
